Jared C. Wilson
“We believe” the creed has us say, and this belief begins where the gospel story and our worship ought to begin, with the one who has no beginning (or end): God himself. ...
A little girl was on the way home from church when she turned to her mother and said, "Mommy, the preacher's sermon this morning confused me." The mother said, "Oh! Why is that?" The girl replied, "We...
One day C.H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were t...
One person noted that: God is a lot like our pastor. I don't see him through the week and I don't understand him on Sunday....
Last week I took my children to a restaurant. My six-year-old son asked if he could say grace. As we bowed our heads he said, "God is good. God is great. Thank you for the food, and I would even thank...
When you are ministering to the sick and dying, share these words of David Livingstone: "I am immortal until the will of God is accomplished in my life!"...
Jared C. Wilson
The creed, attributed to the earliest missionary followers of Jesus, distills the basic outline of what it means to be a Christian into a short summation that belies the depth and richness of what it ...
We serve an extravagant God. On a clear night with the unaided eye you can see 2,000 stars. Astronomers think that in the universe as a whole there are billions of stars. God made 200,000 kinds of flo...
In the early 1970's Gough Whitland was the prime minister of Australia. He did not believe in God. He said, "If there is a God and if I ever meet him you can be assured of one thing. I will treat him ...
Many people in Ghana, Africa are very devout. They express it in the names they give to their business enterprises. There is a Hail Mary Plumbing Shop. You can to go to the I Love Jesus Dry Cleaner. Y...
Recently a 61-year-old Massachusetts grandmother took some wrong turns and got into a pile of trouble. It was her first day on her new job as a school bus driver. She got so lost that she wound up in ...
"One of the best ways of describing our relationship with God is to think in terms of the human relationship of courtship and marriage. Those of us who are married can remember when we fell in love w...
After the 1988 Winter Olympics, a television show featured a group of blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make ri...
In his weblog from April 21, 2004, R. Albert Mohler points out, "As Romans 1 makes absolutely clear, homosexuality is fundamentally an act of unbelief. As Paul writes, the wrath of God is revealed ag...
Imagine a young girl asleep on the second story of her home. She awakes one night—middle of the night—and there is the smell of acrid smoke. She stumbles to the door and opens it to a sheet of fire. T...
No other relationship can take the place of a personal relationship with the Creator God....
God in His extravagant love for us created a wide variety of things for us to enjoy in this world--and no eye has seen what He's done in the next!...
The focus from the pulpit is where the focus of the congregation's heart is going to be....